We met Ryan Ng a few months back when he dropped by our office to find out more about Perth’s local art community, and we were met by an eager and passionate visual artist hailing from Penang, Malaysia. We sat down with him to chat about how he got into and learned visual arts, what he’s learned from Chinese brush painting, how he admires the attitude and approach of his mentors, the Penang art scene and finding a particular visual arts style.
Read MoreZoë Sydney is an artist and physicist, you might recognise her from Snart Club – a science-art club that did a workshop at our 2019 event Moonboorli (Beyond) and her DIY clay making video we posted for Youth Week WA 2020. Most recently, Zoë’s painting Fifteen (2020), a portrait of her younger brother’s birthday was a finalist in The Lester Prize for Portraiture. We chatted to her about who she is and what she does, what science and art means to her, and her painting for The Lester Prize for Portraiture.
Read MoreMeet Carrissa Wu, Beeliar Boodjar based local maker and small business owner of Jotterbook Flowers. Carrissa handcrafts delicate paper flower bouquets, accessories and decorations with you in mind. We sat down with Carrissa to talk about her upbringing in Singapore, how she got into making paper flowers and eventually turning it into a small business, and what she’s learned from the Black Lives Matter Movement on social media.
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